by Jim Shulman | Dec 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
Yesterday my husband and I took a long, leisurely drive through Lancaster County in our 1957 Dodge. It was one of those perfect late Summer days that practically demanded a spin in an antique car—and for us, a celebration that this was one of one of those rare...
by Jim Shulman | Dec 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
A few months ago I went through a Wawa and noticed a special display of three new potato chip variations, each with some bizarre flavor (meaning a mélange of Frankensteinian esters that simulate something otherwise quite palatable.) The idea was that you were supposed...
by Jim Shulman | Dec 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
About five million years ago—my junior year in high school—I acquired a fake ID to work one summer in the fabled Catskills. Today it sounds really strange to get a fake ID for work, but then if I wanted to make decent money as a waiter I had to be 18, or at least...
by Jim Shulman | Nov 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Back in the last century E.B. White was well-known for his superb writing, from the children’s book “Stuart Little” to his essays in The New Yorker to that lifesaver for late-night college term paper marathons, “The Elements of Style”....
by Jim Shulman | Nov 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’m a fully indoctrinated Philadelphian: when the Papal visit was announced, I immediately thought of the horrible mess we’d see-a city shut down, traffic headaches beyond any engineer’s nightmare, and a huge mess afterwards. Each dollop of new...
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